Soft corals produce diterpenoids, chemicals that could be used to treat human disease. Now, scientists have identified the genes that make these important chemicals, opening the door to creating a ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

Scleractinian corals, or hard corals, have been disappearing globally over the past four decades, a result of climate change, pollution, unsustainable coastal development and overfishing. However, ...

A joint study by Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa set out to solve a scientific mystery: how a soft coral is able to perform the rhythmic, pulsating movements of its tentacles without a ...

An invasive soft coral has been spotted in Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is warning Florida to start preparing. Xenia pulse corals are soft corals that ...

Picture in your mind snorkeling along the base of a tall cliff that drops straight down into the sea and on into the deep blue. You look down and on that cliff below you are growing what look like ...

A recent study suggests that deep-sea corals from 540 million years ago might have been the first animals to glow. Marine creatures use light for various purposes, such as startling predators, luring ...

Scientists found a rare, reflective sea animal on shallow reefs and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative coastline of Oman. Photo from Ghulam Mustafa via Unsplash Along ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Climate change is likely to make reef-building stony corals lose out to softer cousins in a damaging shift for many types of fish that use reefs as hideaways and nurseries for their ...